Super by Matthew Cody Page B

Rohan followed up with a logical question. “You said he’s asking questions about the accident, but do you think he has any more info?”
    Daniel shook his head. “Not yet. All he knows is something strange happened. He knows his car should’ve plummeted into the creek, not floated gently down.”
    “Well, duh,” said Mollie.
    “I’d hoped the shock would’ve confused things,” said Rohan. “It was only a few seconds before he fell.”
    There was an awkward pause as everyone processed the unspoken part of what Rohan was saying—that Theo fell because Eric dropped him.
    “Anyway,” said Daniel, moving on, “Theo knows something’s up, and he wants to talk to us. Specifically, he wants to talk to Eric and Rohan. He’s invited us over to his place for … pizza.”
    “Doesn’t exactly sound like the plan of a criminal mastermind,” said Rohan. “A pizza party?”
    “I think he’s dangerous; I didn’t say he was evil,” said Daniel. “He’s stumbled onto a mystery, and I think he’s determined to solve it.”
    “Just like you were,” said Rohan, smiling.
    “Yeah,” answered Daniel. “And you all took a big chance by telling me the truth.”
    “So, what do you think we should do?” asked Rohan. “You know him better than any of us—do you think we should tell him?”
    “He did save Eric’s life,” said Louisa. “I mean, with Daniel’s help he did. I can’t imagine Herman Plunkett doing something like that.”
    Mollie threw up her hands. “I can’t even believe we’re talking about this! No, we are
not
going to tell him anything! Daniel was different. We can’t compare the two of them.”
    “Well, Daniel is special, that’s true,” said Louisa.
    “I was going to say that Daniel is
totally
unthreatening. He was a skinny new kid who was getting picked on by Clay and Bud. He needed our help.”
    “Gee, thanks, Mollie,” said Daniel.
    “You know what I mean,” said Mollie. “Theo Plunkett has powers we don’t have.”
    “Like what exactly?” asked Rohan.
    “He’s rich,” answered Daniel, before Mollie could say it. “Mollie’s right. I hate to say it, but she’s right. I was just a kid, but I still could’ve caused trouble. But Theo’s family … if they found out about you guys, who knows what could happen?”
    “Are you worried about black helicopters, stuff like that?” asked Rohan.
    “I’m trying not to sound that paranoid, Rohan. But though I don’t want to judge Theo by his family, we can’t ignore it either.”
    “So what do you suggest we do?” asked Eric.
    Daniel scratched his head. Once again here he was acting like the leader of this bunch. And once again he was feeling not quite up to the task, but he hoped it didn’t show. They were looking to him for ideas. “I think we should take him up on his offer. We share a pizza, we hang out, and we convince him that you all are as ordinary as can be. We bore him to death so that he stops snooping around.”
    “That won’t be hard for Rohan,” said Mollie.
    “Quiet, you,” said Rohan. “But what if that doesn’t work, Daniel? What if he’s as persistent as you were?”
    Daniel shrugged. “He can’t do anything on a hunch. He’d need proof.”
    “Which is all the more reason to go over there,” added Mollie. “If Herman left anything incriminating lying around in that big old house of his, this could be our best chance to get it.”
    “Right,” said Daniel. “Herman had a hidden safe in his study—he showed it to me once. I don’t know the combination, but if someone had the power to get inside that safe without having to open it … What do you think, Louisa? You can make yourself intangible, but if there is anything in the safe, you could phase that out too, right?”
    All eyes turned to her. Of all of them, she was the last person to volunteer for a bit of espionage, but she was also the only one with the power to get into that safe, unnoticed.
    “Yeah, my powers work on